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Here's a crazy thought: How about paying people living wages instead of grabbing a megaphone and talking about the good you're doing for the world? Not that MS paid poorly (I worked for them back in college as an orange badge [contractor]), but a stitch in time, as they say, saves nine.
I believe Gates and Buffet are sincere. Musk, on the other hand ...
One cannot be sincere / ethical and be a billionaire simultaneously. If Gates were sincere Microsoft wouldn't be the monopoly it is now.
Says who? You? Maybe they once were not that sincere and have since had a change of heart. BTW, the Gates Foundation has done a tremendous amount of good over the years.
No. They might have done some good, but the harm of hoarding that much wealth outweighs their good contributions. Anyway, it's not the billionaires fault per se, but our flawed systems that have allowed it to happen. If I or most other people were put in the position of Bill Gates in his heyday, we likely would succumb to our vices as well.
His charitable foundation is a personal tax haven/PR machine.
Fuck him.
Even if that's true, it doesn't diminish the very real good that the foundation has accomplished, like Polio eradication or HIV/AIDS research. You can feel about Bill Gates whatever you want, but you cannot deny that his money has done very good things for humanity.
Read his Kharma. Your poor ability to read significant life functionality and dynamics apparently. You display that by failing what is a fantastic example about why computers aren't parasites but some of them are. They are when the masses have been suckered into his crock of blatant lies ad infinitum.
So I really just gotta ask. How much exactly does their ad brag slush pot shell out for your blarring blind rep buff?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies#Red_herring_fallacies
Nice try but that doesn't resurrect his soul. Even if you were close to any reality. I don't "feel" about Gates. I know better than to let his instructions running through MY computer. As if you need another reason to fucking know better. All those "good things" are "good" because they sound good. They aren't. If his greed wasn't parasitic and destructive to all of the world and people and life then anything would do Kharma a plus like that. Look at those actions. They are entirely unsuccessful because they were never done truly. They were just a wave to summon support in a quality he doesn't have. That's Narcissism. You are a parasitic baby egg. You look forward in life to being the same kind of parasitic narcissist capable of exerting greed like that.
It gives away way too much to serve either purpose well.